I love me some Ezells! (for those not "in the know" Ezells is a chicken place in this neighborhood!)
Mark, its from walking in this neighborhood and seeing all the Hen & Chicks that I first began to take an interest, they seem to do different things all through the year, so its been exciting seeing them in other people's yards...now I have many types in my own yard
Greg

She does like it, in fact she loves it. Great planter Mark.

you guys like the brick overdose. I took down 3 chimneys around the hood and i got paid regardless of what i did with them. Now they are in the ground as walks. give it 10 then i imagine i will have to re do it

I love the bricks. They look great!

that gives me heart anyone else would have had them dumped but its better then weed grass

Free bricks?
I too love your brick paths. You must have spent a lot of time putting them all down.

with Zuzu and Lynn - seems like alot of time!! and looks great!

less then a week. the soil is silt so dig flip cut lay brick in dirt sweep dirt over top. I replaced a lava rock path and that was harder then the new stuff but now if you want it in sand or mortar and level thats what takes the time. And you got to mow your path. around here every inch of dirt becomes grass or creeping buttercup. and morning glory you got to watch that one. when we got the place it had grown up into the cedar clapboard when i pulled them they grew back down out of the clapboard! Granted that was before i had done the outside but damn. that stuff is a weed here i was surprised to find out that people collect it!! Guess its just like the blackberries that grow everywhere, one mans .... et ct

Lynn - Free bricks?
The nisqually quake made sure of that. the brick is free from all over. some of it is reusable but just about all the brick is no good for structural work. Most of this stuff is between 80 and 40 years old

It is brick with character.

looks good!

i have been absent this last year
lost a little enthusiasm when i lost my greenhouse, and a lot of plants
http://www.strever.com/Surpris...
plus have been pretty busy since putting it all back together
http://www.strever.com/Surpris...
but i'm pretty sure i will be more active come this spring & summer

Dick
amongst the Redwoods

Ouch, Dick! Hope no one was hurt.

WOW! What a mess! Looks good now but, so much work. I remember reading about your gardens here or DG. Thy are beautiful under the big trees.

Dick, I didn't know you had such a difficult time. That would for sure knock the stuffings out of me.
That was a huge tree.
It is good to see you back and the house repaired. Have you started on another green house? Were you able to save any of the plants?

Sorry to see these photos Best of luck!

Lynn
yes i lost a lot of plants
but i am also surprised at the resilience of some that came back from crushed and ignored
then the rest were sitting on the deck thru out the summer and most of the fall
then i finally got the new green house built
you can see it to the right and behind the house in this pict taken this Nov

I see it. A new beginning.
Let me know if there is anything I can send you to help in a new inventory.

Oh...awful! We built a house in the Northwest years ago and in clearing the land, there were some trees that I was reluctant to take down.....foolish of me, but I was a lot younger then. If/ when we move back into an area that gets that kind of rain and waterlogged ground, I will want large trees kept at a distance. Your pics have convinced me even more.